Favorite NE Flies?

[Soundking]

I am trying to compile a list of the best go-to flies for each loacation in new england, so what is your go-to fly for your home waters? (mine is a five inch olive/white half and half for the north shore of boston)

[Ray]

My home waters are most of NE, so I have the following.

Cape Cod Flats: Super Clouser, olive and white clouser, Ray fly, a few sand eel patterns of my own.

Cape Cod Bays: Big Herring Flies

Vineyard: Razzle Dazzle, Donderew Bucktail, small epoxy sand eel, big squid

R.I.: White Water Witch, Razzle Dazzle, Donderew Bucktail, Ray Fly, squid

North Shore: White Deceiver, olive and white clouser

[Bob Parsons]

Barnstable sandeel patterns of various colors depending on water clarity. (White or chartreuse up in the marshes);
squid in the sound
bonito bunny in the sound later in the season

[sterlings]

Most of my fishing is either at Plum Island in Newburyport, Sakonnet Pt. in Rhode Island or Martha's Vineyard.

Absolute favorite fly in all locations at every time of the day all season long is a smallish light olive epoxy surf candy.

Hands down. And for everything - bass, blues, bonito, albies. Even caught scup, fluke, black sea bass, shad and a white perch on this fly last year.

Good question - I'll be interested to see what everyone else uses.

[bigbonita]

i like a small white deciever for all 4 game fish (bass, blues, bonito, and albies). infact, like the last poster, i catch most fish on these (shad, pollack, fluke, and even a sea run brown at scortons 3 years ago). bunny type flies come a close second. i have to admit, in the name of saving flies, i have switched to candy types when specifically targeting bluefish.
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[bdowning]

Olive/white or chartreuse/white clousers and half-n-halfs in all sizes. White bunnies for little tunas. The dark green-blue epoxy sandeel pattern that Orvis sells as a stock item and I can't remember the name of works nice on the flats for anything. The sluggo "fly." Ray's Fly, when someone is nice enough to send me their rejects...hint, hint. (Tying flies makes me neurotic ;-).);

Still trying to throw the bigger flies like Buffies and Groceries a fair distance with little success. I know they work. It may be time to try a shooting head for these this year.

-bd




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[rustyhooke]

My most productive fly for stripers in Boston Harbor, South Shore, North River is an olive and white or chart. and white bouble bunny. Usually I give the bunny a haircut,clipping off 1/2 - 3/4 the length of the hair. Offers a slimmer profile if sand eels are the meal of the day. But leave the hair full length for when they're feeding on full bodied type bait. I also taper the hides to a blunt point at the aft end, and have the white belly zonker strip a little shorter than the top strip. I pierce the white strip at the hook bend and insert the hook before lashing down the front end. I do and don't lash the top strip at the hook bend.

[ekg]

My favorite flies are fairly large clousers tied in either chartreuse over yellow or purple over yellow with large prismatic eyes in yellow. I tie them on #1 or #0/1 mustad ss hooks

[rockfisherman]

Rhode Island:

#1 Rhody Flat Wings (esp. the Gibbs Striper Fly - caught lots of Dec. and Jan. bass on the Gibbs, my fave.);

#2 Deceivers

#3 Snake Flies

#4 Clousers (olive/white and chart/white);

[David Churbuck]

Southside of the Cape

1. Bonito bunny
2. Grizzly deceiver
3. Poppers

[BruceinRI]

Upper Narragansett Bay

Olive/white clouser - 3.5"

Bunker - 5"

Light blue/gray bozo hair clouser - 3.5"